The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1926, Page 3

j : STRIKERS HAVE NO RIGHTS, SAYS PASSAIC JUDGE Workers Determined to Protect Selves PASSAIC, N. J., April 1. — Civil rights are now a thing of the past In Passaic! The Passaic police court Officials refused to issue warrants for the arrest of Zober and twelve police-) men on charges of atrocious assault, merely because the complainants were strikers! Fifteen complainants with attorneys from the Civil Liberties Union went to the police court to keep their ap- pointment with George M. Rice, clerk of the court, who had said he was “too busy” to issue warrants for the arrest of the police thugs on Satur- day, but would meet them several days later. Abram Waks, of Paterson, was called to the private office of the clerk where he met Police Judge William Davidson, the clerk, and Chief of Police Richard O. Zober. Davidson did the talking. Refuses Rights to Strikers, “I wili not accept any complaints in this court from any of the com- plainants who are involved in the strike,” he said. “Here are two complaints sworn by people who are not strikers. Will you accept their complaints?” asked Mr. Waks. “I will not accept any complaints in this court against any member of the police department or any special policeman as long as the matter un- der complaint is anything that the Police did while in the performance of their duties,” said Judge Davidson. The refusal of Judge Davidson to allow warrants to be issued will not prevent the American Civil Liberties Union from taking further action on the hundred or more cases of clear violation of civil right in Passaic that have been investigated by their at- torneys. Other legal measures will be used. Courts Serve Big Business. New York newspapers had no dif- ficulty in securing warrants against Passaic policemen from the same court that refuses them to strikers. Warrants which they swore out on March 22, thru, their attorheys, charg- ing three ‘Passaic police with brutally assaulting Martin J. McEvilly were not” refused ‘by the “court. The great corporations of New York City are able to set the ma- chinery of the law in motion to pro- tect their members against unjustified assault, while strikers and strike sym- pathizers are denied even the issu- ance of a warrant. The brutal beating of workers on the picket lines has caused Albert Weisbord to issue a statement telling the strikers to protect themselves from similar brutalities in the future. Eight hundred pickets, who marched in orderly procession from the Botany mill to picket the gates of the Pas- saic Print Works, which they wish to bring on strike, were scattered by mounted police, and many were seriously hurt when struck by police clubs. Eight strikers were arrested, and dozens of others were clubbed, in- cluding Jack Fila, an non-striker, who was returning from work on the night shift of a dye works in Hilden and received a serious head wound, Strikers! Protect Yourselves! Weisbord’s statement advising the strikers to protect themselves from the brutal assaults of police thugs follows: . “From the very ‘beginning the United Front Committee of Textile Workers has insisted that all picket lines that were to be formed were to ‘be peaceful as well as powerful. ‘This the workers have carried out to the letter, but in spite of the peace- THE DAILY WORKER PASSAIC TEXTILE WORKERS WILL (Special to The PASSAIC, N, J., April 1, — The methods used by the bosses and police conditions, committee. | behalf of the United Front Committee sorts of organizations are demanding |that the strike be settled, that the |issues of the strike be once more brot before the attention of the public, “It is well to bear in mind in the beginning that the strike was preci- pitated by the vicious action of Col. Johnson of the Botany Mills Consoli- dated company in discharging workers from the mills because they were join- ing their union, Therefore it is plain that the responsibility for calling the strike at the time when it was called must be placed upon the shoulders of the mill owners themselves. The workers realize the situation entirely and while fighting for the right to or- ganize at the same time presented their grievances to the owners. “For the woolen and worsted mills of Passaic and vicinity their demands are: 1—Not only the abolition of* the wage cut but a ten per cent increase in wages over the old wage scale; 2.—The return of the money taken by wage cuts since the time the cuts were last given; 3.—Time and one-half for overtime; 4.—A 44-hour week; 5—Decent and sanitary working conditions; 6.—No discrimination against union workers; 7.—Recognition of the union. For the other plants affected by the strike, the demands are the same, ex- cepting that the wage increase asked is 5%, since there was no cut in those mills. “The workers are determined to fight for all of these demands to the very end altho they do not wish to prolong the strike one day more than necessary. They have unqualifiedly accepted every honest offer of media- fulness and orderliness of the picket lines, the heads of the workers have been broken again and again by the brutal policemen, “The United Front committee of Textile Workers can no longer toler- ate this barbaric situation and it is- sues instructions to all of the work- ers now on strike to defend them- selves against illegal, assaults of the police. It is, of course, understood that no good striker will carry any weapon, but it must now be under- stood that these peaceful, home-lov- ing people will no longer permit their heads to be cracked wide open by gangsters in uniform without defend- ing themselves to the best of their ability. Our lines will continue firm as before. Bosses Import Killers. “We understand that quite a num- ber of gangsters have been imported into this city. They have crowded around the doorway leading to union headquarters. They have beaten up several people passing in and out by the door. They are a distinct menace to the peace and order maintained by the strikers up to this time. We call upon the officials of the city to end this terrorism by those imported gangsters. Should the officials fail to do their duty in this respect the re- | sponsibility for further disorders will rest fully and plainly upon their shoulders.” Sees Decline of Liberty. The last regular meeting of the first season of the Chicago Forum will be held at the Olympic Theater next Sun- day afternoon (April 4), Rev, John A. Ryan, of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. will speak on “The Decline of Liberty in the United States.” FOURTH JUBILEE CELEBRATION OF THE ‘FREIMEIT at the MECCA AUDITORIUM, 56th Street and 7th Avenue, New York City Saturday Evening, April 3 Oratorio “DIE TZVAI BRIDER” Words by J, L. Peretz——Musio by J. Schaffer with the Freiheit Singing Soci Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by ety and the New York Lazar Weiner, Tickets $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 at “Freihelt” office, 30 Union Square, New York City. STRIKE UNTIL DEMANDS. ARE WON, DECLARES STRIKERS’ COMMITTEE Daily Worker) United Front Committee of Textile Workers has issued a statement reiterating the demands made by the strik- ing textile workers relating the causes for the strike and exposing the sluggers to break the strike for better The statement points out that the United Front Committee repre- sents the workers in the textilewmills and that only workers are on this The statement given out by Albert Weisbord, leader of the strike, on of Textile Workers, follows: “It seems highly proper now that all ¢—————_____________. tion that has been made. The mill own- ers on the other hand, have rejected every proposal to negotiate with the strikers, and up to the present time do not offer one single concession to the workers. Their sole terms have been ‘go back to work—destroy your union,’ “The mill owners have used all sorts of tricks to sidetrack the people from the true issues of the strike. They have cried atheism but that cry has been stopped by the many generous donations which have been received from churches and church organiza- tions of Passaic. “They have cried Bolshevism, but the strikers themselves have always expressed their willingness to have the question of Bolshevism investiga- ted by the United States senate along with the question of the living and working conditions in Passaic. “They have cried thieves but the Journal of Commerce and Finance it- self admits in an article that the relief work has been handled in an honest and efficient manner. “Thruout all of this time the work- ers have stood firm. They have build up a strong, powerful union of almost six thousand members. They have elected their own mill committees from the ranks of the workers them- selves, and those mill committees have made up the United Front Com- mittee of Textile workers. Not a single member of that committee but is a worker. No other body is so truly representative of the workers as the United Front Committee itself. The workers are prepared to fight for this union to the very last. The right to organize must be recognized by the mill owners.” DENVER, OColo., April 1. — The Associated General Contractors have refused the demands of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers’ Local No. 55 and the question of a wage increase now goes to the state industrial commission. April 2 is the date set for the hearing. The union demands an increase of $2 a day in order to bring the scale of the union carpenters to $11 a day. Banquet Scene of New York Builders’ Club LABOR UNIONS RALLY TO AID OF STRIKERS Relief Urgent Need of Passaic Workers PASSAIC, 'N? J., April 1.— In their effort to aid the strikers by bringing bread, members of Baker’s Local 100, who came with two truck loads of bread from Pochter’s Backing com- pany, which is co-operating with the union of the American’ Federation of Labor in furnishing bread, were ar- rested, for the second time in a week. Charges were speeding, as ‘before. Two drivers were held under heavy bail, and will doubtless receive the usual heavy fines meted out to strikers and their sympathizers. The Bakers have delivered nearly eight thousand leaves of bread within a week. Other outstanding contributions of the day came’from Local 97 of the United Mine Workers, from the Fin- nish United erative Society of Maynard, M from the relief con- ference of Mifwaukee, and from the Postal Workérs’ local who broke their rule of giving érily $5 contributions to strike causes and gave $25, $38,000 was collected at the Newark tag day. Anofher tag day is planned for Passaic on’ April 24. The fourth’ rélief store of the strike was opened at Lodi for the strikers of the United Piéte Dye works, and the need for réliéf funds will be appre- ciably incréaybd'as these workers ap- ply. MASS MEETING ON TEXTILE WORKERS’ STRIKE. HE date of the mass meeting of arranged by the International the Passaic textile workers’ strike, Workers’ Aid, has been changed to Thursday, April 8, 8 p. m., at the Douglas Park Auditorium, corner Kedzie and Ogden Aves. . Speakers will be Roger Baldwin, of the Amegican Civil Liberties’ Union, J. Louls Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, and Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the International Workers’ Aid. All of these speakers have recently visited the Passaic strike zone. will be a can of food or 15 cents. Admission Texas Democrat Tries to Kill Compensation Measure by Amendment WASHINGTON, April 1. — By a vote of 9 to 7 the house committee on the District of Columbia has refused to substitute the Underhill workmen’s compensation bill for the Fitzgerald bill. The former is backed by the private insurance lobby, because it provides that private insurance com+ panies may handle the industrial acci- dent business in the District.. The Fitzgerald ‘bill, providing for a gov- ernment insurance fund exclusively, thus greatly reducing the cost of the insurance, is backed by the American Federation of Labor and the majority in the committee. As a dilatory trick Rep, Blanton moved to bring domestic employes to the number of 100,000 or more under the law. It was known that with this clause included the ‘bill could not pass. His amendment was beaten, 14 to 8. He is now seeking to delay final action in committee until it will be too late to pass the bill thru the house at the present session. When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. DANCE given by INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE, Armenian Branch at FLEINER’S HALL, 1638 N. Halsted St., near North Ave. Saturday, April 3, 1926 at 8 P. M, Good Music. Admission 60c. Fascists Formulate List of Italians to Forfeit Citizenship (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, April 1—-The commission entrusted with advising the minister of the interior and the minister of foreign affairs, the two officials charged with enforcing the recently passed laws against Italian citizens who attack the fascist regime from abroad, is hard at work compiling an index expurgatoris, Sure to be in- cluded in the list are such prominent Italians as Nitti, premier of Italy dur- ing one of the most difficult years of the post-war period; Professor Salve- mini, head of the history department of Florence University until his expul- sion, and Don:Sturzo, founder of the Popular, or Roman Catholic party, a large portion o£ which has been op- posed to the fascists for the past three years. a Broad Provisions. The provisions of the law are very broad. All acta come within its pro- hibition which tend to disturb public order in Italy or from which harm to Italian interestsior to the good name and prestige of:the country may ac- crue, Penalties/are the forfeiture of citizenship, the sequestration of prop- erty, and in extreme cases its confis- cation. If a person thus deprived of citizenship becomes a citizen of an- other country he loses all rights of any kind which he possessed in Italy. * Attack French at Kattana. The insurgents attacked four squad- rons of French cavalry at Kattana, near Beirut. They had surrounded and set fire to the village before the French could rally their forces. It was only the possession of airplanes which saved the defenders from being annthilated, As it was they suffered severe losses. THE MOVEMENT FOR WORLD TRADE UNION By Tom Bell, UNITY A brief but complete and important study of the subject now under discussion by world Labor, The ‘history of the past negotiations and the basie of orld unity of Labor are included. . "15 Cents, New York Office of The Daily Worker Where The Daily Worker Builders’ Club Idea Started. COAL OPERATORS RECOVER LOSSES BY PROFITEERING Extra Coal Charges Make Millions (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, April 1. — Anthra- cite operators have been profiteering thru extra charges for coal at the rate of $250,000 a day. This statement was made today In the house of rep- resentatives by Congressman Hamil- ton Fish of New York, He further said that the operators have agreed not to allow the usual 50 cent per ton reduction due on the 1st of April. The extra charge impos- ed by the operators since the strike will gmount to a total additional pro- fit of $75,000,000 annually. The agreement signed by the min- ers makes no provision for a wage increase. The coal companies, how- ever, are going about making up their strike losses by profiteering on the heavy post-strike demand for hard coal, The miners have no way of mak- ing up their losses, FREE LITERATURE SUPPLIED, MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Free copies of the YOUNG WORKER, Tribuna Robotnieza, Pravda, and Honor and Truth, can be secured from Frank ailder, 821 Clylesurn St., Milwaukee, To Proletarian Writers The Little Red Library offers an unusual opportu- nity for your development, Manuscripts on all sub- jects can be submitted. On trade unions, Com- munism, Art, Literature, Kiction—on any subject of interest to workers, Only these restrictions must be rigidly observed: Manu- scripts must be from 10 to 16 thousand words—defin- itely proletarian in char- acter and treatment and typed on one side of the page only—with stamps for return if not accepted, Address: 1113 W. Washington y Boulevard, Chicago, Ill, 187 definitely proletarian ing heaven.” No. 6—-Marx and Sere cae NEW YORK BUILDS LITTLE RED ARMY; OTHER CITIES FOLLOW By WALT CARMON New York, under the leadership of City Agent L, HE. Katterfeld, has ini- tiated a club of Communist propagand- ists, the idea of which promises to be- come: country-wide. The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club, to which membership can be had only on the basis of work accomplish- ed, in securing subs for The DAILY WORKER or other Communist. pub- Hications, by it’s sale and distribution or by work in the local office of The DAILY WORKER or some special service of propaganda in any form, Social Benefits Included. The list of the New York Builders’ Club has grown to eleven hundred names in the last few months. Over three thousand subscriptions were secured by three New York Builders in the months of February and March alone and a banquet recently held in celebration of work accomplished was attended by some three hundred build- ers, including the editor of The DAILY WORKER, J. Louis Engdahl, specially invited to come to New York to speak to these super-propagandists, Idea Grows Rapidly. The idea of The DAILY WORKER | Builders’ Club spread quickly. Under the leadership of L. E. Katterfeld, also eastern representative of The DAILY WORKER, Boston and Philadelphia are perfecting builders’ clubs and in its process have already increased the subscriptions to The DAILY WORK- ER in their efty. by twenty per cent. Last night Chicago builders held their first party,.attended by the edi- torial and business staffs of The DAILY WORKER, , Los Angeles organ- ized quite appropriately on the night they celebrated the 55th Anniversary of the Paris Commune. Clubs Unite Nationally. Still in their infancy, The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club are already feeling the necessity of exchange of experiences and greetings to each other on good work well done. New York, Chicago and Philadelphia build- ers sent greetings to an affair in Los Angeles. All these in turn sent greet- ings to Chicago builders to their party. These are first steps of what is sure to become a national little red army performing and perfecting propaganda distribution for more effective results for the Communist movement. The moral is surely: Start a DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club in your city. “THE WEAVERS,” FAMOUS PLAY BY HAUPTMANN, TO BE GIVEN IN RUSSIAN HERE “The Weavers,” the famous play by Gerhard Hauptman,—will be pre- sented in Russian Sunday, April 25, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Di- vision St., for ‘the benefit of the Pas- Saic textile strikers. The affair is arranged by the Russian branch of the International Labor Defense, The play will be staged under the leadership of the well-known actor, L. Luganov, Another New Number In THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY Number Eight of Paris -By Max Shachtman. A splendid little booklet of one of the most brilliant pages in working class history. The first revolt, when Karl Marx wrote of their heroism, the workers were ‘“‘storm- Read it on the 55th anniversary of the great day in our history, Just Issued: Is on Revolu- Agitator and Other The Daily Worker tion In America, Stories, Publishing Co., By Heinz Neuman, By Michael Gold. principles, ands we Page Three FIRESTONE JAMS THRU HIS DEAL WITH LIBERIA Negro Republic Loses Sovereignty AKKRA, Gold Coast, West Africa, April 1.—Afters a heated debate that lasted for over a month and persistent lobbying on the part of the mission- aries and the Harvey Firestone rubber interests, the deal made between Seo- retary of State Edwin Barclay and the Firestone interests was ratified by the Liberian legislature. This act of the Liberian legislature has failed the hopes of the Negro in Liberia for an independent republic unhampered by imperialist powers, They realize that with the develop- ment of the rubber plantations here the Firestone ritbber interests will more and more take over the func- tions of the government so that even- tually the Firestone interests will be the real rulers and the president and the legislature will merely be the puppets of the rubber interests, Lose Sovereignty. During the discussion on the rati- fication of this deal and of an agree- ment with the National City Bank, @ Rockefeller concern, to float a $5,000,- 000 loan it was pointed out that to accept the terms laid down by the American interests to have an Amert- can financial adviser to control the finances of Liberia and paid a higher salary than the president of the Libe- rian republic was a step towards mak- ing Liberia a coolie of American capt- talists. Both deals have been put thru. Many of the native papers tried to console themselves during the discus- sion on the ratification of the two deals with tales that the Americans are not able to stand the climate and that after being in this zone for a year or two they would be forced to leave, otherwise they would become victims of the climate, This argument was ably answered by one of the papers opposed to thé ratification, which pointed out that it was not necessary for the American interests to ever leave America and come to Liberia, but that thru the handing out of well-paid jobs many of the present rulers could be bought off and in this way the imperialists could easily rule the island. Shatters Dream of Negro. The action of the Liberian legisla- ture shatters the dream of many Ne- gro workers and farmers in America for a homeland of their own. This move of the legislature now makes Liberia the prey of imperialists, who will bring the same conditions in Libe- tia that predominate in Haiti, Santo The Commune No, 7—-The Damned id stories of class life by most prom. inte ot Amrorites”® Domingo and the South American “re- publics.” 2-8 Ald Dope-Factory in Liberia. PHILADELPHIA, April 1. — The missionary department of the A. M. E. church, tool of American imperialism in Liberia, has made arrangements with one of the Philadelphia banking institutions to send $8,000 to be used by the Monrovia college and training school founded by Bishop W. Samp- son Brooks in Monrovia, Liberia. 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